Brill jan 2017 (39 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Hans-Jürgen Syberberg is an original, the most controversial of all the New German directors and a figure who has long been at the vanguard of the resurgence of experimental filmmaking in his homeland. Syberberg's most characteristic films examine recent German history: a documentary, for example, about Richard Wagner's daughter-in-law, who was a close friend of Hitler (The Confessions of Winifred Wagner [1975]). But especially 'historical' is his trilogy covering one hundred years of Germany's past, including, most famously, Hitler--A Film from Germany, also known as Our Hitler (1977). In this film and other works, Syberberg unites fictional narrative and documentary footage in a style that is at once cinematic and theatrical, mystical and magical.Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, the Film Director as Critical Thinker: Essays and Interviews is the first edited book in English devoted to this director's work, and includes his most important English-language interviews as well as some of the best English-language essays on his work. In sum, this book is a significant contribution not only to the study of Syberberg's oeuvre, but also to the study of German history and politics in the second half of the twentieth century.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Peshitta is the Syriac translation of the Old Testament made on the basis of the Hebrew text during the second century CE. Much like the Greek translations of the Old Testament, this document is an important source for our knowledge of the text of the Old Testament. Its language is also of great interest to linguists. Moreover, as Bible of the Syriac Churches it is used in sermons, commentaries, poetry, prayers, and hymns. Many terms specific to the spirituality of the Syriac Churches have their origins in this ancient and reliable version of the Old Testament.The present edition, published by the Peshitta Institute in Leiden on behalf of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament, is the first scholarly one of this text. It presents the evidence of all known ancient manuscripts and gives full introductions to the individual books. This volume contains Canticles or Odes, Prayer of Manasseh, Apocryphal psalms, Psalms of Solomon, Tobit, and I(3) Esdras.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The challenges posed by the non-liquidity and non-diversity of the Islamic debts market make the market an inefficient tool on contributing to Muslim economic growth. Islamic scholars and experts created sukuk as an Islamic debt instrument to avoid riba (usury), but the sukuk market (especially in the Gulf) still struggles with the prohibition of the trade of debt due to the prohibition of the two Fiqh Academies.Trading and securitizing debts should be permitted in Islamic law, with one condition, that the debt should be considered low risk. This new rule, the permissibility of trading debts, is supported by three Islamic legal bases, istishab, qiyas, and maslaha, which are recognized by all four Islamic schools of legal thought. Furthermore, permitting the trading of debts is more consistent with the principles and theories of Islamic law than is forbidding it. It is consistent with the obligations theory that debt is a personal right. It is consistent with the mal (property) theory that debt may be sold according to the three Islamic schools of legal thought, all of which consider debt as property. It is consistent with other modern Islamic financial transactions that are permitted by the two Fiqh Academies, such as tawarruq and murabaha. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 2000, the case brought by Australia and New Zealand against Japan's unilateral experimental fishing programme for southern bluefin tuna controversially failed to reach the merits for lack of the arbitral tribunal's jurisdiction. It was widely supposed that it would ultimately have failed anyway because of international courts' reluctance to consider scientific matters, the dispute's underlying cause being the parties' scientific disagreements regarding both the tuna stock itself and the nature and risks of the experiment. In 2014, however, the ICJ decided in Australia's favour the case against Japan's scientific whaling, based on flaws in the design of that experiment. Reviewing the tuna experiment's evolving design, the propositions it was to (dis)prove and the use Japan intended for that proof, Andrew Serdy suggests that similar factors were at play in both disputes and that a similar outcome of the tuna case, though not inevitable, would have been amply justified.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this brief volume, written for professional biblical scholars and graduate students being trained in Bible, Stephen C. Russell introduces the reader to the interdisciplinary study of space and its related concepts, including land, territory, border, frontier, nature, scale, spatial flows, and rhythm. He offers a synopsis of eight approaches to the study of space that have been influential in the humanities and social sciences in recent decades--sacred, legal, political, economic, ecological, visual, social, and urban approaches. He pays special attention to Henri Lefebvre's treatment of social space as a social product. The volume also briefly notes some of the work being done by biblical scholars in conversation with spatial studies. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Until quite recently, the term Diaspora (usually with the capital) meant the dispersion of the Jews in many parts of the world. Now, it is recognized that many other groups have built communities distant from their homeland, such as Overseas Chinese, South Asians, Romani, Armenians, Syrian and Palestinian Arabs. To explore the effect of exile of language repertoires, the article traces the sociolinguistic development of the many Jewish Diasporas, starting with the community exiled to Babylon, and following through exiles in Muslim and Christian countries in the Middle Ages and later. It presents the changes that occurred linguistically after Jews were granted full citizenship. It then goes into details about the phenomenon and problem of the Jewish return to the homeland, the revitalization and revernacularization of the Hebrew that had been a sacred and literary language, and the rediasporization that accounts for the cases of maintenance of Diaspora varieties.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Diplomacy is no longer restricted to a single vocation nor implemented exclusively through interaction amongst official representatives. In exploring the challenges that these transformations produce, this work surveys firstly, the genealogy of diplomacy as a profession, tracing how it changed from a civic duty into a vocation requiring training and the acquisition of specific knowledge and skills. Secondly, using the lens of the sociology of professions, the development of diplomacy as a distinctive profession is examined, including its importance for the consolidation of the power of modern nation-states. Thirdly, it examines how the landscape of professional diplomacy is being diversified and, we argue, enriched by a series of non-state actors, with their corresponding professionals, transforming the phenomenology of contemporary diplomacy. Rather than seeing this pluralization of diplomatic actors in negative terms as the deprofessionalization of diplomacy, we frame these trends as transprofessionalization, that is, as a productive development that reflects the expanded diplomatic space and the intensified pace of global interconnections and networks, and the new possibilities they unleash for practising diplomacy in different milieus.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The battle of Kulikovo, fought between Muscovite and Tatar troops in 1380, has been considered as a crucial turning point in the national history of Russia. In The Battle of Kulikovo Refought Kati Parppei examines the layers of contemporary meanings attached to the event from the Middle Ages to the present, following the formation and establishment of the collective images and perceptions concerning the battle. By utilizing a diverse set of sources she shows that the present image of the medieval battle was created in retrospect from the 15th century onwards by interpolating, interpreting and simplifying. The narrative themes emphasizing internal unity have been applicable to practically any political situation over the centuries, especially to ones involving external threat.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Third Edition of Brill's Encyclopaedia of Islam appears in substantial segments each year, both online and in print. The new scope includes comprehensive coverage of Islam in the twentieth century and of Muslim minorities all over the world.This Part 2017-1 of the Third Edition of Brill's Encyclopaedia of Islam will contain 47 new articles, reflecting the great diversity of current scholarship in the fields of Islamic Studies.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The 'Global' and the 'Local' in Early Modern and Modern East Asia presents a unique set of historical perspectives by scholars from two important universities in the East Asian region--The University of Tokyo (Todai) and Fudan University, along with East Asian Studies scholars from Princeton University. Two of the essays address the international leanings in the histories of their respective departments in Todai and Fudan. The rest of the essays showcase how such thinking about the global and local histories have borne fruit, as the scholars of the three institutions contributed essays, arguing about the philosophies, methodologies, and/or perspectives of global history and how it relates to local stories. Authors include Benjamin Elman, Haneda Masashi, and Ge Zhaoguang.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Phenomenology, Architecture and the Built World is an introduction to the methods and basic concepts of phenomenological philosophy through an analysis of the phenomenon of the built world. The conception of the built world that emerges is of space and time fashioned in accordance with a living understanding of what it is for human beings to exist in the world. Human building and making is thus no mere supplementary instrument in the pursuit of the ends of life, but a fundamental embodiment of the self-understanding of human beings. Phenomenological description is uniquely capable of bringing into view the physiognomy of this understanding, its texture and complexity, thereby providing an important basis for a critique of what constitutes its essence and its conditions of possibility.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Water in Social Imagination considers how human communities have known, imagined and shaped water - and how water has shaped both material culture and the imagination. Essays from diverse perspectives offer histories of water at different scales - from community water wells and sacred springs to Siberian rivers and the regulated space of the Baltic Sea. From early modernization through Soviet style technological optimism to contemporary environmentalism, water's ideological uses are multiple. With sustained attention not just to state policy and the technologies of high modernity, but to creative resistance to utilitarian imaginations, these essays insist on fluidities of meaning, ambiguities that derive both from water's physical mutability and from its dual nature as life necessity and agent of destruction.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Artistic Disobedience Claudio Bacciagaluppi shows how music practice was an occasion for cross-confessional contacts in 17th- and 18th-century Switzerland, implying religious toleration. The difference between public and private performing contexts, each with a distinct repertoire, appears to be of paramount importance. Confessional barriers were overcome in an individual, private perspective. Converted musicians provide striking examples. Also, book trade was often cross-confessional. Music by Catholic (but also Lutheran) composers was diffused in Reformed territories mainly in the private music societies of Swiss German towns (collegia musica). The political and pietist influences in the Zurich and Winterthur music societies encouraged forms of communication that are among the acknowledged common roots of European Enlightenment.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Warriors for a Living, Idan Sherer examines the experience of the Spanish infantry during the formative period of the Italian Wars. Decades of clashes between Spain and France transformed Italy into a crucible of military tactics and technology and brought about the emergence of the Spanish infantry tercios as Europe's finest military force for more than a century. From their recruitment, through the complexities of everyday life in the army and culminating in the potential brutality of soldiering, the book offers a fresh and much needed exploration, analysis and, at times, reconsideration of what it meant to be a professional soldier in early modern Europe.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Identity Formation and Diversity in the Early Medieval Baltic and Beyond, the Viking World in the East is made more heterogeneous. Baltic Finnic groups, Balts and Sami are integrated into the history dominated by Scandinavians and Slavs.Interaction in the region between Eastern Middle Sweden, Finland, Estonia and North Western Russia is set against varied cultural expressions of identities. Ten scholars approach the topic from different angles, with case studies on the roots of diversity, burials with horses, Staraya Ladoga as a nodal point of long-distance routes, Rus' warrior identities, early Eastern Christianity, interaction between the Baltic Finns and the Svear, the first phases of ar-Rus dominion, the distribution of Carolingian swords, and Dirhams in the Baltic region.Contributors are Johan Callmer, Ingrid Gustin, Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson, Valter Lang, John Howard Lind, Marika Mägi, Mats Roslund, Søren Sindbaek, Anne Stalsberg, and Tuukka Talvio.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume pays homage to the historian of logic Angel d'Ors (1951-2012), by bringing together a set of studies that together illuminate the complex historical development of logic and semantics. Two main traditions, Aristotelian and terminist, are showcased to demonstrate the changes and confrontations that constitute this history, and a number of different authors and texts, from the Boethian reception of Aristotle to the post-medieval terminism, are discussed.Special topics dealt with include the medieval reception of ancient logic; technical tools for the medieval analysis of language; the medieval theory of consequence; the medieval practice of disputation and sophisms; and the post-medieval refinement of the terminist tools.Contributors are E.J. Ashworth, Allan Bäck, María Cerezo, Sten Ebbesen, José Miguel Gambra, C.H. Kneepkens, Kalvin Normore, Angel d'Ors, Paloma Pérez-Ilzarbe, Stephen Read, Joke Spruyt, Luisa Valente, and Mikko Yrjönsuuri.These articles were also published in Vivarium, Volume 53, Nos. 2-4 (2015).…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An urban biography, Brody: A Galician Border City in the Long Nineteenth Century reconciles 150 years of the town's socioeconomic history with its cultural memory. The first comprehensive study of this city under Habsburg-Austrian rule, Börries Kuzmany advises against reading urban history solely through the national lens. Besides exploring Brody's extraordinary ethno-confessional structure--Jews, Poles, and Ukrainians--Kuzmany examines the interrelation between the city's geographical location at the imperial border, its standing as a key commercial hub in East-Central Europe, and its position as a major springboard for the dissemination of the Haskalah in Galicia and the Russian Empire. After delving into the contradictory perceptions of Brody in travelogues, fiction and memory books, Kuzmany uses contemporary and historical photographs to provide an illustrated walking tour of this now Ukrainian town.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This important collection of articles by leading Chinese scholars of Islamic studies reflects current thinking about the past and present condition of Islam in China. It has a strong focus on China's north-west, the most important region for the study of Islam in China. Most contributions relate to the Hui (Chinese-speaking) Muslims of Gansu and Qinghai provinces and the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region but there are also chapters on the Uyghurs of Xinjiang. An important feature of this book is the attention paid to the Sufi orders: the role of these networks, which embody an inner-directed and mystical aspect of Islam, is crucial to the understanding of Muslim communities in both historical and contemporary China. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - With the transition to the commercial-scale exploitation of deep seabed minerals, the International Seabed Authority's obligation to protect the marine environment is being tested. In The International Seabed Authority and the Precautionary Principle, Aline L. Jaeckel provides the first in-depth analysis of the Authority's work in regulating and managing deep seabed minerals. This book examines whether and to what extent the Authority is implementing the precautionary principle in practice. This includes the development of adequate environmental protection standards as well as procedural safeguards and decision-making processes that facilitate risk assessment and risk management. In doing so, the author offers an insightful example of how the precautionary principle can be translated into a practical management tool.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Yearbook aims to promote research, studies and writings in the field of international law in Asia, as well as to provide an intellectual platform for the discussion and dissemination of Asian views and practices on contemporary international legal issues.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Launched in 1965, the Australian Year Book of International Law (AYBIL) is Australia's longest standing and most prestigious dedicated international law publication. The Year Book aims to uniquely combine scholarly commentary with contributions from Australian government officials. Each volume contains a mix of scholarly articles, invited lectures, book reviews, notes of decisions by Australian and international courts, recent legislation, and collected Australian international law state practice. It is a valuable resource for those working in the field of international law, including government officials, international organisation officials, non-government and community organisations, legal practitioners, academics and other researchers, as well as students studying international law, international relations, human rights and international affairs. It focuses on Australian practice in international law and general international law, across a broad range of sub-fields including human rights, environmental law and legal theory, which are of interest to international lawyers worldwide.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Launched in 1965, the Australian Year Book of International Law (AYBIL) is Australia's longest standing and most prestigious dedicated international law publication. The Year Book aims to uniquely combine scholarly commentary with contributions from Australian government officials. Each volume contains a mix of scholarly articles, invited lectures, book reviews, notes of decisions by Australian and international courts, recent legislation, and collected Australian international law state practice. It is a valuable resource for those working in the field of international law, including government officials, international organisation officials, non-government and community organisations, legal practitioners, academics and other researchers, as well as students studying international law, international relations, human rights and international affairs. It focuses on Australian practice in international law and general international law, across a broad range of sub-fields including human rights, environmental law and legal theory, which are of interest to international lawyers worldwide.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - India, Modernity and the Great Divergence is an original and pioneering book about India's transition towards modernity and the rise of the West. The work examines global entanglements alongside the internal dynamics of 17th to 19th century Mysore and Gujarat in comparison to other regions of Afro-Eurasia. It is an interdisciplinary survey that enriches our historical understanding of South Asia, ranging across the fascinating and intertwined worlds of modernizing rulers, wealthy merchants, curious scholars, utopian poets, industrious peasants and skilled artisans. Bringing together socio-economic and political structures, warfare, techno-scientific innovations, knowledge production and transfer of ideas, this book forces us to rethink the reasons behind the emergence of the modern world.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Findet im modernen Gedicht die Seele zur Sprache Autorinnen und Autoren der POETICA III fragen nach der Bestimmung der Seele und ihrer Sprachen im Resonanzraum des Gedichts. Wie kommt die Seele zur Sprache und was sind ihre Sprachen Sind es die Sprachen der Dichtung oder die der Wissenschaft Werden ihr die ästhetischen Ideen der Poesie oder der Musik gerechter als die Verstandesbegriffe der Theologie, der Psychoanalyse, der Gehirnforschung Welche Wirklichkeit hat die Seele in einer säkularisierten Welt noch, welche Wirklichkeit in Kulturen, in denen metaphysische Traditionen ungebrochen sind Gedichte und Essays von Monika Rinck, Günter Blamberger, Heinrich Detering, Javier Bello, Michael Donhauser, Nurduran Duman, Stefan Weidner und anderen.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ein historisches Ereignis wie der Erste Weltkrieg fordert immer wieder neue Interpretationen und Erzählungen heraus. Der Sammelband analysiert die Literatur und Kunst über den Krieg aus europäischer Perspektive. Das Thema »Erster Weltkrieg« ist relevant nicht, weil der Beginn des Kriegs gerade seinen 100. Jahrestag erlebt hat. Der Krieg hat als eine Art »Urkatastrophe« Einsichten in die dunklen Seiten der Moderne offenbart. Dieser Band möchte die Dominanz einer einzigen dominanten Erzählung über den Krieg durch eine Vielzahl konkurrierender Perspektiven ersetzen. Die komparatistische Perspektive verspricht nicht eine neue Wahrheit über den Ersten Weltkrieg, sondern eher Einsichten in die Komplexität und die Vielzahl möglicher Wahrheiten. So eröffnet das Verstehen des Kriegs und seiner Rezeption zugleich eine Reflexion über die Arbeit der Geisteswissenschaften. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Fotografische Bilder üben nach wie vor eine besondere Anziehungskraft aus. Man zweifelt selten an ihnen als Kronzeugen des Realen. Als theoretisches Werkzeug für diese Zeugenschaft dient das Konzept der Indexikalität. Mit der Entdeckung des Begriffs im Werk von Charles S. Peirce gelingt Rosalind Krauss die theoretische Erfindung eines Konzepts, das in seiner Nachhaltigkeit kaum zu überbieten ist. Bis heute entfaltet es sein Heilsversprechen und sorgt wie kein anderes Konzept für viel Sprengkraft. Roland Barthes inszeniert es mit Raffinesse auf der großen Bühne der Fototheorie und macht es so zu einem allgemeinzugänglichen Theoriebild, obwohl er selbst nie direkt von Indexikalität gesprochen hat. Mirjam Lewandowsky gewährt dem Leser Einblick in die Geschichte der Indexikalität, deren bildtheoretischen und philosophischen Grundlagen und kommt so dem näher, worin die Glaubwürdigkeit von Bildern liegt.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Gibt es Erleben ohne Selbstbewusstsein - In der gegenwärtigen Philosophie des Geistes wird diese Frage fast durchweg bejaht. Phänomenalität und Selbstbewusstsein werden als getrennte Phänomene behandelt, wobei das Hauptaugenmerk dem phänomenalen Bewusstsein gilt. Gegen eine solche Zweiteilung der Bewusstseinsproblematik wendet sich dieses Buch. Argumentiert wird für einen inneren Zusammenhang zwischen Phänomenalität und Selbstbewusstsein. Alles Erleben enthält demnach ein minimales Bewusstsein meiner selbst. Insofern meine Erfahrungen subjektiv sind, insofern sie sich für mich auf eine gewisse Art und Weise anfühlen, gehen sie mit einem präreflexiven Selbstbewusstsein einher. Dieses präreflexive Selbstbewusstsein stellt eine grundsätzliche Herausforderung für den Naturalismus dar. Sowohl die klassischen Higher-order-Theorien als auch die jüngeren selbstrepräsentationalistischen Ansätze scheitern an ihm. Selbstbewusstsein, so zeigt sich, steht im Zentrum der Bewusstseinsproblematik. Das Phänomen des Erlebens lässt sich nicht ohne das Phänomen des Selbstbewusstseins erklären. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Die Zeitbestimmungen, die in dem sogenannten 'Verfließen der Zeit' begründet sind (wie die vergehende Gegenwart), spielen für unsere geistige Existenz eine fundamentale Rolle. In dem Buch soll gezeigt werden, dass sich wesentliche Eigenarten unserer Erkenntnisfähigkeiten, aber auch die kausale Wirksamkeit des Geistes in der physischen Welt auf dieser Grundlage befriedigend verstehen lassen. Ein starker Freiheitsbegriff, der die Möglichkeit einschließt, etwas Neues zu beginnen, kann auf diese Weise gerechtfertigt werden. Das Ergebnis ist ein nicht-naturalistischer Dualismus, freilich nicht der Substanzen, sondern der zeittheoretischen Basis entsprechend der Prozesstypen. Ein solcher Dualismus, der weder den Gesetzen der Physik noch den Tatsachen der Evolution widerspricht, erlaubt es, an den herkömmlichen Merkmalen von Personalität festzuhalten.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Es ist quasi ein Dogma der europäischen Philosophie: Bewusstsein sei reflexiv und intentional, das heißt Bewusstsein sei immer Bewusstsein von etwas. Dieses Vorurteil wird in diesem Buch mit den Erfahrungen aus der Meditationspraxis konfrontiert. Übungen des Zazen lassen eine ganz andere Bewusstseinsform entstehen: die leere, nichtreflexive Bewusstheit. Es könnte sein, dass diese als ein Urphänomen die Familie der Bewusstseinsformen zusammenhält, also Präsenzbewusstsein, Leibbewusstsein, Selbstbewusstsein, Gegenstandsbewusstsein, Zeitbewusstsein. Besonders nützlich ist das Kapitel über Bewusstseinstypen. Hier werden die Formen des europäischen Bewusstseins an charakteristischen Gestalten der Literatur plastisch vor Augen geführt, etwa an Sartres Monsieur Roquentin und an Benns Rönne. Ferner wird das literarische Erscheinen des inneren Menschen in der Bekenntnisliteratur dargestellt. Dies ist ein theoretisches Buch über Bewusstseinsformen, es erinnert jedoch immer wieder daran, dass die darin mitgeteilten Einsichten nicht ohne Übungen anzueignen sind.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Die Beiträge von Karsten Berr und Hans Friesen, Arno Görgen und Rudolf Inderst, Rüdiger Vaas, Karsten Weber, Klaus Wiegerling sowie Thomas Zoglauer zeigen die unglaubliche Spannweite des Themas, wie Philosophie und Phantastik zusammenhängen: Sowohl eher grundsätzliche und theoretische Fragen als auch der Umgang mit Zukünften oder philosophischen Ideen in der phantastischen Literatur, dem Film und in Computerspielen werden behandelt. Dabei spielt stets eine Rolle, wie wir über das Mögliche, aber (noch) nicht Seiende nachdenken können; ebenso wird behandelt, wie mit dem Nachdenken über das Mögliche Antworten auf schon lange debattierte Fragen der Philosophie gegeben werden können. Phantastik erweitert dabei den Raum des Möglichkeiten bis an die Grenzen des Denkbaren; so werden Szenarien zugänglich, die für realistische Überlegungen nicht erreichbar sind.…